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...smash, the last scene features a Quayle-turned-manic-killer on one side of May's door "...with his muzzle-loading revolvers, knives, lengths of cord, gas chambers, doppelgangers, poison-bearing pins" versus a group of friends sitting on a couch, smiling encouragingly, waving brightly-coloured plastic baseball bats." It is here that Pesetsky's wisdom lies; rather than offer epigram, dogma, or role model, she generally keeps her characters' lives firmly within the Barnum & Bailey's that is their natural sphere...
...group's success is almost as wild as the opera poof masquerades of its lead singer, Boy George. Consider: three Top Ten singles from Culture Club's first album, Kissing to Be Clever, which sold more than a million copies; a fourth, fresh single, Church of the Poison Mind, already snug at No. 11, with another, Karma Chameleon, ready to take off; and a new album, Colour by Numbers, storming the LP charts...
Shady fortune hunters, as Heineken knows, find such figures irresistible. In 1980 three extortionists threatened to poison cans of Heineken beer unless they were paid more than $1 million. Their plot was foiled. Nonetheless, another would-be crook tried the same ploy last August, demanding $3.3 million. Some of the policemen who thwarted him were entertained by Heineken in his office on the day of his disappearance...
...province of Khuzistan. In addition, Iraq bombed several towns in northwestern Iran with Soviet-made fighters and bombers. Civilian casualties were estimated to be in the hundreds. Tehran also charged that Iraq had resorted to chemical warfare for the second time in a month, lobbing artillery shells filled with poison gas at Iranian troops. Thirteen people were said to have been killed and 40 others injured in that attack...
...have nationwide publicity. Now the $23.5 million film, due for release in December, is in trouble with the motion-picture industry's rating board. The eight board members have found Scarface so violent that they want to give it an X rating. To avoid that box-office poison, De Palma has already recut the movie four times, and now he claims that any additional cuts will destroy his "artistic vision." Universal, meanwhile, refuses to release the film in an X-rated form. The R-biters and X-aminers who looked at the director's latest cut last week...